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Subject: Expansion of the acronym "grep"
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What is the correct expansion of the acronym "grep"? I'm told that this
has come up in comp.unix.questions before, but the relevant articles are
no longer on my news server. I'd also be interested in knowing what the
acronyms for the other flavors of grep (e.g. egrp) expand to.

--Brett

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